Toleration Act

Toleration Act may refer to:

  • Act of Toleration 1689, in England
  • Maryland Toleration Act, of 1649

Famous quotes containing the words toleration and/or act:

    “Every nation ... have their refinements and grossiertes.... There is a balance ... of good and bad every where; and nothing but the knowing it is so can emancipate one half of the world from the prepossessions which it holds against the other—that [was] the advantage of travel ... it taught us mutual toleration; and mutual toleration ... taught us mutual love.”
    —Laurence Sterne (1713–1768)

    “Think of those barren places where men gather
    To act in the terrible name of rectitude,
    Of acned shame, punk’s pride, muscle or turf,
    The bully’s thin superiority.”
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